Ayres v. C., R. I. & P. R.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, MahasJca Circuit Court Sometime in the year 1875, a number of the citizens of Oskaloosa, desirous of securing an extension of the Washington & Sigourney branch of the Chicago, Roclc Island & Pacific Railroad from Sigourney to Oskaloosa, agreed to pay to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company the sum of twenty thousand dollars when the track of said railroad should be completed from the town of Sigourney into the city of Oskaloosa, provided that if…
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Appeal from, MahasJca Circuit Court Sometime in the year 1875, a number of the citizens of Oskaloosa, desirous of securing an extension of the Washington & Sigourney branch of the Chicago, Roclc Island & Pacific Railroad from Sigourney to Oskaloosa, agreed to pay to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company the sum of twenty thousand dollars when the track of said railroad should be completed from the town of Sigourney into the city of Oskaloosa, provided that if tlie track should not he completed from the town of Sigourney into the city of Oskaloosa on the first day of January,…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
— The plaintiff introduced C. A. Weed, general manager for Queally & Bro., who, amongst other things, testified as follows: “I went to Chicago three times after the death of J. J. A. Queally, to confer with Mr. Riddle about the business, and I had a conference with him at Oskaloosa in regard to the financial matters of the work. The first interview was about September 15, 1875, after the death of Mr. Queally, when I went to Chicago at .the request of Mr. Riddle, with the pay rolls from the beginning of the work to the 1st *482of September, and other papers and figures relating thereto, which he…
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